Metallic ceiling-cornice



(No Model.)

M V M w m i W m UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LONGLEY LEwIs SAGENDORPH, or CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO CHARLES N. HARDER, or PHILMONT, NEW YORK.

METALLIC CEILING-CORNICE.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,949, dated December 24, 1889.

Application filed October 21, 1889. Serial No. 327,640- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: the joist the flange a is forced in between Be it known that I, LONGLEY LEWIS SAG- the strip and the wall, after which the other 50 I ENDORPH, a citizen of the United States, renailing portion a is nailed to the joist, which siding at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamsecurely retains the flange a of the cornice 5 ilton, State of Ohio, have invented certain in place. If the cornice-strip be sufficiently new and useful Improvements in Metallic wide, both the nailing portions a may be Ceiling-Cornices, of which the following is a nailed to the joist and the flange a? may be 55 specification, reference being had to the aosprungbeneath and behind the strip 0; but companying drawings, forming apart thereof. it is preferred to nail but one portion first,

IO The object of my invention is to provide a then insert the flange to place, and afterward means by the aid of which the cornice maybe nail the other portion of the cornice to the connected at one edge to the vertical walls of joist, as afore described, Having secured the-o0 the building without driving nails or screws cornice-strips to place in the manner just dethrough said cornice, as will more fully hcrescribed, the ceiling-plates are put to place on inafter appear. the flange a and engage any suitable form of In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 panel-strip at the opposite side of the plate. is a perspective view of a portion of two cor- The advantages of my invention are appar- 6 5 nice-strips applied in the corner of a ceiling, cut. The cornice-strip is securely retained showing the means employed for connecting in connection with the wall without warring the cornice to the Vertical walls, with a porsaid strip with nail-holes or hammer-marks. tion of a metallic ceiling-plate in position on The lower edge of the cornice can be formed said cornice-strips. Fig. 2 is a cross-section in any desired configuration in connection through one cornicestrip and its retainingwith the retaining-flange a strip secured to the vertical wall before being What I claim as new, and desire to secure 2 5 locked to position. by Letters Patent, is-

My invention consists in forming the cor- 1. In combination with a cornice-strip pronice-stripsAof a configuration substantially vided at one side with an upturned flange, as shown, having an upturned flange a, termithe strip 0, nailed to the wall of the building, nating atone side below the plane of the nailsaid flange engaging between the said wall- 0 ing portions (0, the ceiling-plates B resting strip and the wall, substantially as set forth.

upon said flanges when in position, as shown. 2. A cornice-strip having the nailing por- The other side of the cornice-strip terminates tions a and upturned flanges a and a the in an upturned flange 6L2, the latter engaging flange a terminating below the plane of the between the strip C and the wall to which it portions a, the flange a engaging between 5 is nailed. the strip 0 and the wall, substantially as set It will be seen that by nailing the strip C forth. to the wall and providing the cornice-strip 3. The means herein set forth for retaining withthe flange [L2 the latter may be inserted one side of a cornice-strip to the wall, conbetween said strip and the wall, and in this sisting of a suitable strip nailed to the wall 0 manner the cornice-strip is securely connected in such a manner as that theupturned flange to the Wall without driving nails through the on the cornice-strip will engage between said cornice. wall-strip and the wall, as and for the pur- 9 The cornice-strips are applied in the followposes set forth. ing manner: Each strip is first nailed to the LOYGLEY LEWIS SAGENDORPH.

4 5 ceiling joist or sheathing through the flat portion a, as shown, the wall-strip O having IVitnesses: been previously nailed to the wall in proper GEO. M. VERITY, position. After having nailed the cornice to C. U. SCHERVECK. 

